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September 4, 2008

Firebrand Q Of The Week

Evan at Firebrand will be asking a bunch of Red Sox bloggers one question every week. The first round is here:

When J.D. Drew returns from injury, how should the Red Sox use Mark Kotsay?

Me:

Kotsay should be used as a 4th/5th outfielder. Drew will still need a few days off and Coco Crisp and Jacoby Ellsbury are not hitting consistently enough, though Crisp has been much better since the beginning of August. Jason Bay will likely be the only outfielder in the lineup every single day. The other four can be mixed and matched, depending on the opposing pitcher and other factors.

This really belongs in a game thread, but since there's no game (and FJM doesn't allow comments)...

Actual conversation that happened a few minutes ago on the esteemed YES Network:

Michael Kay: There's a website, a baseball website, and if I knew the exact address of the website I'd give it to you, but what they do is they take the remainder of the season [game action deleted] and, through a computer, they play the remainder of the season a million times. They'll do it a million times so they can get every variation of how it could go, and they say that the Rays, with the lead that they have and the way they've been playing, have a 99.6% chance of making the post-season this year. So, it's almost miniscule that they wouldn't.

Ken Singleton: How 'bout finishing first? Did they--

MK: They didn't say that, they just said making the post season.

KS: Ah, ok

MK: ... so maybe they end up with the wildcard.

Al Leiter [awestruck]: You've gotta get that site. A *million* times?

MK: I had it written down somewhere, and somebody threw away the paper. So I'm going to blame it on somebody I who don't know.